List of airports in Kansas
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This is a list of airports in Kansas (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
The largest airport serving northern and eastern portions of the state is Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Missouri. The largest airport located in the state is Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, a Class C airport.
Contents
Airports
This list contains the following information:
- City served – The city generally associated with the airport, as per the airport's master record with the Federal Aviation Administration. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve. It is not meant to be a complete list of cities served, which can be found in or added to each airport's Wikipedia article.
- FAA – The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These are linked to each airport's page at the Kansas Department of Transportation.
- IATA – The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
- ICAO – The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
- Airport name – The official airport name. Those shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
- Role – One of four FAA airport categories, as per the 2013–2017 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) report released October 2012:
- P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
- L: Large hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- M: Medium hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- S: Small hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
- N: Nonhub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements.
- CS: Commercial service – nonprimary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each year.
- R: Reliever airports are designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport and to provide more general aviation access to the overall community.
- GA: General aviation airports are the largest single group of airports in the U.S. airport system.
- P-s: Commercial service – primary are publicly owned airports that receive scheduled passenger service and have more than 10,000 passenger boardings (enplanements) each year. Each primary airport is sub-classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types (s):
- Enpl. – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2013, as per FAA records released October 2014.
Footnotes:
- ↑ Great Bend Municipal Airport is listed as a general aviation facility in the 2013–2017 NPIAS, based on annual enplanements below 2,500.
See also
- Essential Air Service
- Kansas World War II Army Airfields
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#Kansas
References
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
- FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
- National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (2011–2015), released 4 October 2010
- Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2010 (final), released 4 October 2011
Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT):
Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list:
- Aviation Safety Network – used to check IATA airport codes
- Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Kansas – used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
- Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Kansas – used for information on former airports
